Email: laing@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8147
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Convective precipitating systems, tropical cyclone rainfall, satellite estimates of precipitation, flash flood mitigation, mesoscale and volcanic ash fall modeling, and wildfire forecasting

Recent Publications

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Shapiro, M. A., Shukla, J., Brunet, G., Nobre, C., Beland, M., Dole, R., Trenberth, K. E., Anthes, R. A., Asrar, G., Barrie, L., Bougeault, P., Brasseur, G., Burridge, D., Busalacchi, A., Caughey, J., Chen, D., Church, J., Enomoto, T., Hoskins, B., Hov, O., Laing, A., LeTreut, H., Marotzke, J., McBean, G., Meehl, G. A., Miller, M., Mills, B., Mitchell, J., Moncrieff, M. W., Nakazawa, T., Olafsson, H., Palmer, T., Parsons, D. B., Rogers, D., Simmons, A., Troccoli, A., Toth, Z., Uccellini, L., Velden, C., Wallace, J. M., 2010: An earth-system prediction initiative for the 21st Century. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2944.1. (In Press).

Lamptey, B. L., Pandya, R. E., Warner, T. T., Boger, R., Bruintjes, R., Kucera, P. A., Laing, A., Moncrieff, M., Ramamurthy, M. K., Spangler, T. C., Weingroff, M., 2009: International Relations: The UCAR Africa Initiative. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, doi: 10.1175/2008BAMS2452.1, 299-303.

LaJoie, M., Laing, A. G., 2008: The influence of El Nino-Southern oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast of the United States, Part I: Lightning climatology. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2227.1, 2523-2542.

Laing, A. G., LaJoie, M., Reader, S., Pfeiffer, K., 2008: The influence of El Nino-Southern oscillation on lightning in the Gulf coast of the United States, Part II: Monthly correlations. Monthly Weather Review, 136, doi: 10.1175/2007MWR2228.1, 2544-2556.

Laing, A. G., Carbone, R. E., Levizzani, V., 2008: The propagation of deep convection in Africa: Implications for predictability of precipitation. Quantification and Reduction of Predictive Uncertainty for Sustainable Water Resources Management, IAHS Series, 313, 24-32.

Laing, A. G., Carbone, R. E., Levizzani, V., Tuttle, J. D., 2008: The propagation and diurnal cycles of deep convection in northern tropical Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134, doi: 10.1002/qj.194, 93-109.